Sentence examples for been picked for an from inspiring English sources

Stanton, 34, has never been picked for an All-Star team, and he said before the Yankees' game today that he was "trying not to think about it".

Later on he told me: "I was just lucky to have never ever been picked for an execution squad.

Carroll hasn't been picked for a competitive game in three years.

I'll sidestep Lou Reed's emotional cruelty on The Kids as it's been picked for a previous list, and instead give you Stan Lee Cole's award-winning Separated.

In the diary, Ferdinand said that the players were needlessly wasting energy in wondering if they had been picked for a match, and that they would then find it hard to hit the right intensity levels during a game.

Ethan Canin was picked for an episode in A Doubter's Almanac where pneumatic lovers enjoy sex "like a brisk tennis game or a summer track meet, something performed in daylight between competitors.

One of a class of super-locomotives built to pull the long trains required by passenger demand, the Flying Scotsman was only belatedly christened when it was picked for an appearance at the 1924 British Empire Exhibition.

"He and I had a conversation in the summer and he said he didn't want to be picked for an under-21 match against the Faroe Islands.

While what-triggers-an-audit theories abound, there are some basic things you can do to reduce your chances of being picked for an audit or at least to make any interactions with the IRS less traumatic.

The highly trained and highly experienced but less widely connected Hispanic middle manager is less likely to be picked for an executive position than is someone with far more social capital.

Keyed up by that, Mr Harrer longed to be picked for a Himalayan expedition.